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Lack of empirical evidence prevents objective assessment of the advantages and/or shortcomings of this two-stranded system, but its existence may sharpen the ongoing debate about how C-L services should be structured in other countries. Psychosomatic Medicine, founded in 1939, is the official organ of the American Psychosomatic Society. This handbook is a first-line source of essential information and practical guidelines for. Psychosomatic Medicine studies a somatic disorders and diseases that arise under the influence of emotional stress, mental impacts, experienced by an individual in the past or at present. The unique history of combined neurology and psychiatry training until 1992, and of mandated psychotherapy training in both specialties shapes the service provided but also sets up tensions. Michael Blumenfield, Maria Tiamson-Kassab, Michael Blumenfeld. The latter specialty includes non-psychiatric physicians. The author draws on material published in German and international publications, and on his experience as co-chair of the Section of Behavioral Medicine and Consultation Liaison Psychiatry of the German Society for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Neurology.Ĭonsultation-liaison psychiatry services are provided in virtually all German general hospitals, mainly by the medical specialty of psychiatry and psychotherapy and to a lesser extent by the specialty of psychosomatics and psychotherapeutic medicine, exclusively so in 5%. Casebook of psychosomatic medicine, James A Bourgeois, Debra Kahn, Kemuel L Philbrick, John Michael Bostwick. To describe the reshaping of the German system of psychiatric services in the wake of the international social psychiatric movement and the beginnings of separate consultation-liaison (C-L) psychiatry and C-L psychosomatics services, to outline the differences and similarities of these two disciplines, and to see whether there are lessons to be learned from this unique development that may be.

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